Quotes of Thomas Babington Macaulay - somelinesforyou

“ We must judge of a form of government by its general tendency, not by happy accidents. ”

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

“ What a blessing it is to love books as I love them; to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal! ”

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

“ What a blessing it is to love books as I love them; to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal! ”

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

“ His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar. ”

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

“ His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar. ”

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

“ Sidney Godophin," said Charles (II), "is never in the way and never out of the way. ”

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

“ His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar. ”

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

“ A system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife. ”

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

“ How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old. ”

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

“ Then none was for a party; Than all were for the state; Then the great man helped the poor, And the poor man loved the great: Then lands were fairly portioned; Then spoils were fairly sold: The Romans were like brothers In the brave days of old. ”

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

“ How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old. ”

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

“ Man differs from man; generation from generation; nation from nation; education, station, sex, age, accidental associations, produce infinite shades of variety. ”

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

“ The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. ”

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

“ The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. ”

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

“ We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. ”

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

“ Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic. ”

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

“ How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old. ”

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

“ Then none was for a party; Than all were for the state; Then the great man helped the poor, And the poor man loved the great: Then lands were fairly portioned; Then spoils were fairly sold: The Romans were like brothers In the brave days of old. ”

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

“ Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors. ”

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

“ We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. ”

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

“ The impenetrable stupidity of Prince George (son-in-law of James II) served his turn. It was his habit, when any news was told him, to exclaim, "Est il possible?" — "Is it possible? ”

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

“ Sidney Godophin," said Charles (II), "is never in the way and never out of the way. ”

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

“ Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things. ”

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

“ Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons. ”

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

“ A beggarly people, A church and no steeple. ”

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

“ Alas for human nature, that the wounds of vanity should smart and bleed so much longer than the wounds of affection! ”

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

“ A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false. ”

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

“ His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar. ”

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

“ The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. ”

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

“ The real object of the drama is the exhibition of the human character. ”

- Thomas Babington Macaulay
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